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HK Government appointed testing facility BGI accused of patent infringement; District councilor warns: samples collected could still be tested by China affiliated labs

Last month, the HKSAR government appointed 3 companies to take charge of a city-wide Coronavirus nucleic acid test in Hong Kong, of which, two of them (#KingMed and #Hybribio) are closely connected to the Chinese Communist Party, while the remaining one, BGI Group was recently sanctioned by the US government for facilitating mandatory gene tests in Xinjiang.

The 3 testing labs that the SAR government has procured their services are also China-affiliated, leaving the Hong Kong people no other option but to go against it.

To make matters worse, an international bio-tech company filed a complaint in the high court against BGI last Friday (August 14) for a patent infringement and demanded compensation.

Separately, Roy Tam Hoi-pong, Tsuen Wan District Councilor, posted an alert on his Facebook page in an attempt to warn residents against the #FreeCovidTest offered by the government.

Tam wrote on his Facebook that the Nasopharyngeal swab sampling kit distributed via HK based Yan Chai Hospital in Tsuen Wan came actually from one of the appointed testing lab, Sunrise Diagnostics Centre, which was established by BGI.

Tam pointed out that it is highly unsafe to assume that Nasopharyngeal samples collected via local hospital will remain in Hong Kong and be tested in Hong Kong.

Sources: Apple Daily; Roy Tam's Facebook #Aug17

https://www.facebook.com/359825757405314/posts/3147711291950066/

https://hk.appledaily.com/local/20200817/YOBYBBRSIBHEBDCZAD4QQYACCU/